To express the concept of “wonderful mountains in Yilan”, the three green mountain-shaped cushions are set on the bench. Their functions are making 3 spaces for sitting and 3 backrests for children. Besides, the plastic circles which are equipped under the bench can become the game items of “Throwing Circle”. Numerous children could play the game together and have fun. Happy with Mountain hopes create a scene of the children of the new generation playing in front of the beautiful Yilan’s mountains and land that makes children grow up happily in Yilan.

Designer: Chi-Ho,Lai

Love Puff

[ Silver Award ]

In the farmlands of Sanshing, pigs are important partners no matter being livestock or being a source of incomes. The general image of piggies is cute and round. Love Puff applies a comforter to express the soft and comfortable feelings. It plays the characters of both a riding toy and a children chair. Children could twist the tail to withdraw the comforter which plays as a seat’s cushion. It ingeniously makes the space of the chair become a storage space for your comforter. The natural materials are applied like wood and organic cotton which makes children feel like playing in Yilan’s fields to experience the nature and play safely.

Designer: Daisuke Nagatomo, Ming-Ni, Chan Ka-Wai,Leung

No,123 Blocks Chair

[ Bronze Award ]

No,123 Blocks Chair let you enjoy Yilan’s nature, culture and ecology by blocks! The design is inspired by blocks – an interesting game for young and old. We gracefully interpret Yilan’s landscapes, cultural characteristics and even local specialties like the Turtle Island, the Lize Bridge and the San-Shing Green Onion by blocks. They are interpreted into a geometric style by blocks and become interesting decorations against the chair body. The looks of chairs describe the splendid local customs on the Langyang Plain. The chair also let kid experience a journey which is both educational and entertaining.

Designer: Mike He

Fluid Stool

[ Excellent Work ]

The stream is upward which forms the stool and like whale’s spraying. The water streams form the surface of stool, and it supports kid’s weight. After the child has grown up who is too heavy to sit on the stool, the stream could be downward to form a flower vase. We have materialized water streams into real forms and the forms could be changed into different looks. The streams represent the rain of Yilan which irrigates crops and plants and the process is like the cultivation of children’s growth. A kid’s stool is transformed into a flower case. Cherishing every item they have, the characteristic of Yilan’s people has been transplanted into the product. In the different surroundings, the life of the item could be extended like a running stream.

Designer: Chih-Wei,Wu

Whale Ride

[ Excellent Work ]

Yilan has wonderful ocean environment. Whales and dolphins swim and dance in this ocean and create fantastic and beautiful views! We have been inspired by the environment protection, and we also hope Yilanbe the homeland of ocean mammals forever. Our design thinking is based on them. The main structure is a whale’s shape. The blue cloth balls are installed at the seat surface to express the ocean. There is a network structure designed as the surface for holding the balls. Let kids pick the balls by their willingness and it will help them createan infinite imaginary space. Likea whale, their imaginations will swim and wander in the boundless ocean.

Designer: Hong-Yu,Huang, Hsuan-Hui,Hsu

Spring Water Chair

[ Excellent Work ]

Due to the wonderful springs, Taiwanese people recognize that Yilan is the homeland of springs. The core concept of this creation is collecting Yilan’s elements from the general image of Yilan: wonderful landscapes and wonderful springs. So we design the form of the chair as a cypress bathtub. It creates an interesting atmosphere like enjoying a hot spring when a child is sitting on it. The form of the cushion has been inspired by the waving of water which expresses the rhythm of water waves. In addition, the Turtle Island shaped pillow and the supplementary 4 cushions make children adjust the height of cushions by their preferences. They can also share their cushions when friends visit their houses.

Designer: Nien-An, Lin Ya-Fang, Cheng Ya-Ting,Lu

Sanxing Courier

[ Excellent Work ]

Sanshing Courier combines a toy with a chair. Parents could use different chair’s components for playing different games like playing house. Different components could be used independently. The wood part which surrounds the back is used to be a route for the truck. Children can have fun by connecting their toys with the chair. They can put their toys on the truck for running, or put their own cars on the route for racing!

Designer: Kai-Li, Lin Ting-Xuan

Cicada chair

[ Excellent Work ]

The design concept of Cicada Chair is inspired by the buzzing bamboo cicadas in folkgames. We simplified the form of bamboo cicadas to create the form of the chair. And we inserted a rope into the chair’s body which makes it can buzz when children pull the rope. The chair let children experience the old toy in parents’ childhood, and parents also can interact with their children by the chair. Children will understand the mechanism of bamboo cicadas’ buzzing what let children learn knowledge in the games.

Designer: Cheng-Hsun, Su Yi-Ying, Yang Chih-Wei,Hsu

New Friend

[ Excellent Work ]

Yilan has lots of farmland. So cattle is the best friend for a child of a farmer’s family. We set the cattle as our design element and transform it into a rocking chair for children. The chair’s body is integrally formed and composed by a curved wood. One yellow leather is added to be the cushion makes the place where touches children become more comfortable. The chair creates one cattle company your child in his/her each growing moment.

Designer: Yi-Ying, Yang Cheng-Hsun, Su Chih-Wei,Hsu

Good Soil

[ Excellent Work ]

The Langyang Plain, the land of enrichment, is an alluvial plain created by the rivers originate from the mountains which surround the plain at the northern, western and southern ways. The hydrographic net of the rivers is like the tri-fans-shaped folding chair. The opened fans’ surfaces represent the abundant, vital and diversi ed creatures which live on the plain. The strings follow the traces of the rivers and extend to the chair’s surface. The textile image makes us think about the hands of a mother which are always busy in weaving. The weaving of strings makes farmland of a father who works hard for feeding his family. The warmness from green landsand people’s homes are interwoven, like a chair which always breeds, supports and protects every Yilan’s resident.

Designer: Lynn,Pei Yi-Jin,Chiang

Flower Stool

[ Excellent Work ]

SanshingTownship, the start point of the Langyang Plain, farmers who live here cultivate fallow plants during the fallow periods. That makes the birth of the Sanshing Flower Festival. The form and the design concept are based on cosmos, the main flower species of the Sanshing Flower Festival. The solid wood combination makes a folding stool for children. The streamline shape represents the elegant image of cosmos. If you place several chairs together, they will make you feel like staying in a flower land.

Designer: Yii-Ju,Chung Shao-Keng,Lu

Rain Farmer

[ Judges’ Choice ]

A baby buffalo carries farmland, and farmland has been transformed to a cushion. One surface of the cushion is like a field of seedlings which are soft and tender. And another surface is like straw which is stiff and wild. You’ll hear the raining voice of Yilan when you flip the cushion. The rain is pouring like rice’s falling. Turn on or turn off the song of harvest festivals by lifting the cushion. The treasure-like first crops of rice in the Langyang Plain is growing between showers. That’s the insistence of Rain Farmer. We keep your treasure as the Plain keeping the rain.

Designer: Hsiang-Min,Chen

Rocking Ramune

[ Judges’ Choice ]

Yilan is the origin of Taiwanese Ramune soda which has been introduced into Taiwan in Japanese colonial period. It became a fade in Yilan due to the characteristic which combined thelocal specialty, Su-ao Cold Spring. Even though the Ramunefactory has been moved, the childhood memory of Ramuneis still deeply linked with Yilan. The most interesting thing for children is rocking the marble in the bottle while they are drinking a Ramune. So the stool combines “shaking” and “pressing” actions of drinking a Ramune. The interactions between bells and children make itself become a funny and melodious children’s stool.

Designer: Chih-Wei,Liao

Triplets of Mushrooms

[ Judges’ Choice ]

There are more than 100 hiking trails in Yilan. The wet environments of the trails are favorable conditions for mushrooms. Mushrooms usually crowd together what makes us think about childhood. We always crowd together to observe the beautiful things in surroundings. So we design a seat which could be sat by three kids in the same time. There are soft cushions designed for making it more comfortable. The linked mushrooms represent fertility and cooperation. There is a green part added by splicing and dyeing techniques between the legs and the body to express the most representative image of Yilan – the beautiful green.

Designer: Yu-Yun,Tseng Yu-Chi,Lee Wen-Juan,Huang

Ho Yi

[ Judges’ Choice ]

Besides the three main elements of Yilan: the wonderful landscapes, the individual cultures and the warm hospitality, recently people have combined the natural value with the plain humanity to create an individual “The Yilan Style”. So combining is our concept. It not only makes children could assemble chairs by themselves, but also makes children build a seesaw by collaboration. That will help children heat up their relationship and add interactive fun into the processes.

Designer: Chao-Lung,Cheng

Yilan Ocean

[ Judges’ Choice ]

In the coastal area of Yilan, the waves always lapon the shore and the winds always blows in the sky. Yilan is a town which is surrounded by mountains, springs, rivers and the ocean. The cultural characteristic is deeply related with water. Yilan Ocean is inspired by the billows’ up and down. The image of splash wave is transformed into a rocking chair. Children can ride on the wave. By rocking the chair, children will love the ocean in the waving and start to observe the oceanic ecology further. It cultivates the concept of the sustainability of the ocean in children’s mind.

Designer: Dong-Bo,Cai

Fun Together

[ Judges’ Choice ]

Fun Together has merged the concept of the Yilan International Children’s Folklore and Folkgame Festival to make children play with adults and it also expresses the images of Yilan: warm hospitality and love sharing.Fun Together is like a gyroscope when it is static. If you flip the cushion, it will become a platform for playing gyroscopes which makes children play their own gyroscopes or toys and share with friends. When a child sit on it, it naturally slopes in an angle what makes children adjust their sitting postures in ergonomics theory. They also can sit on the chairs and play together which makes Fun Together become a treasure box in children’s memories.

Designer: Ling-Cheng,Huang

Chin-Shin

[ Judges’ Choice ]

Chin-Shin has considered the situation of numerous persons using it in the same time and enhanced the emotional linkages between the users and the product. When users sit on it, the central 3D textile and the handles at the both ends elevate its interactivity to children. According to the interpretation of the Su-ao Cold Spring, the smooth curve represents the water stream of the spring and the interstices of the textile represent the bubbles sticking on your skins during bathing. While someone is sitting on it, the sinking of the chair’s surface is like taking a bath in the cold spring. And the rocking of the chair reflects your relax feeling in the cold spring.

Designer: Han-Chung,Yang Kuo-Yao,Hsu Jong-Ron,Lo

Crab With Me

[ Judges’ Choice ]

Did you ever think about that there is a mysterious animal living in Yilan? The crab Xenograpsus, a species of animals can live in a high level of temperature and acidity. There is no natural enemy for crab Xenograpsus, so they can peacefully live in the sea water surrounding the Turtle Island. Crab With Meis inspired by the hunting movement of crab Xenograpsus: they stretch their pincers to find some food. This function of the chair will supply enough light and water while children are reading. The middle pink cushion which could be sat by children represents the crab’s shell to create an atmosphere of a crab playing with a child.

Designer: Ka-Wai,Leung Daisuke Nagatomo Ming-Ni,Chan

Fly

[ Judges’ Choice ]

Flying is the core concept of this design. The form is inspired by the shape of one butterfly species: the common bluebottle and we use silhouette technique and bionic posture to represent the butterfly. The triangle-shaped wings, the water-blue bands and the high- speed shuttling like a airplane between flowers describe its elegant flying. The movements also represent vitality and rhythm. Butterflies play a key role in the ecology system, and they are also the index of environments. Butterflies also could be applied in scientific, cultural and artistic researches. They are one of natural resources which has high potential of development in Yilan.

Designer: Jia-Fong,He

Sow and Sew

[ Judges’ Choice ]

When the big wheel rotates for one circle, the small wheel does it also. On the lands which are green and gorgeous like brocade, two wheels slowly move and cultivate the lands. One after another, the lands aresorted into different pieces of fabrics. We try to use the weaving processes to symbolize the encounters between different races on the Langyang Plain. They irrigate this plain together and keep cultivating. They each expect that they can keep working together for the future.

Designer: Lynn,Pei Yi-Jin,Chiang

Frog Chair

[ Judges’ Choice ]

In our childhood, we usually did origami to spend the waiting time while we are waiting for the rain’s stop. The favorite creation is the paper frog which can jump by pressing. Jump, jump, jump! In Yilan, most days are rainy days in summer. If you hear frog’s croaking in a rainy day, the sound will clean your soul and make your heart escape from the city . The shape of origami frog is the model of this design. We use the hinges to make the visual image like a origami creation. The product’s assembling is under a DIY method which makes it be easy to store and be convenient to carry.

Designer: Hong-Zi,Zhang Chi-Jun,He

Creek Culture

[ Judges’ Choice ]

The Little River Culture is the culture which is developed by Han people and Kavalan people who lives near Dongshan River and its tributaries. Ah-bo boats were the main tool for shipping materials and herding ducks in old days. There was a common saying in Yilan: “No bicycle would be fine, but no Ah-bo boat wouldn’t.” Based on the sentence, we can image the importance and distinctness of Ah-bo boats. The main structure is based on the general shape of the bow of Ah-bo boats and the streamline is extended to form the back. We also challenge the limit of craftsmanship of woodcraft. We use the simple form for setting off the boat’s shape. It makes our Ah-bo boat memory express a stable and calm feeling.

No,123 Blocks Chair let you enjoy Yilan’s nature, culture and ecology by blocks! The design is inspired by blocks – an interesting game for young and old. We gracefully interpret Yilan’s landscapes, cultural characteristics and even local specialties like the Turtle Island, the Lize Bridge and the San-Shing Green Onion by blocks. They are interpreted into a geometric style by blocks and become interesting decorations against the chair body. The looks of chairs describe the splendid local customs on the Langyang Plain. The chair also let kid experience a journey which is both educational and entertaining.

Designer: Mike He

Wonderful Forest

[ Bronze Award ]

The forest resource of Yilan makes wonderful habitat for birds. We introduced the image of a bird singing on a twig to design a three- legs children stool. The sloped bars between legs represent the swigs of a tree, and there are round and cute bird dolls set on the swigs. When you flip the stool, it becomes a toy for children. Children could play an interactive game by changing the birds’ standing places. The bird dolls can be used to be hooks also. It is a multi-functional children stool.

Designer: Yu-Yun,Tseng Yu-Chi,Lee Wen-Juan,Huang

Fluid Stool

[ Excellent Work ]

The stream is upward which forms the stool and like whale’s spraying. The water streams form the surface of stool, and it supports kid’s weight. After the child has grown up who is too heavy to sit on the stool, the stream could be downward to form a flower vase. We have materialized water streams into real forms and the forms could be changed into different looks. The streams represent the rain of Yilan which irrigates crops and plants and the process is like the cultivation of children’s growth. A kid’s stool is transformed into a flower case. Cherishing every item they have, the characteristic of Yilan’s people has been transplanted into the product. In the different surroundings, the life of the item could be extended like a running stream.

Designer: Chih-Wei,Wu

The Yilan

[ Excellent Work ]

We transformed three local elements from Yilan to interpret the stools’ surface, the stool’s form and the stool’s legs. The triangle surface represents the Langyang Plain and the slight curve and the smooth surface are inspired from the rock’s shape and the smooth texture. The lines of stool’s legs represent rice – the crop which occupies the largest cultivation areas in Yilan. The forms look very simple, but all of them could represent one of Yilan’s stories. Children could learn more local customs and cultures from the stool.

Designer: Chan-Wei,Hsu

The Kumquat Stool

[ Excellent Work ]

The design thinking of The Kumquat Stool is started from children. We use natural and non-toxic wood and paint. Our design expresses childlike innocence. The kumquat is like a little sun and the three legs represent the sunshine. It also represents the warmness and the passion of Yilan’s people. The special design of the kumquat’s leaves could not only be the back, but also be turned vertical to become the head and ears of a rocking horse which adds fun into the stool. Besides being a children’s chair, it also could be a lovely decoration in your house. HaveThe Kumquat Stoolin your home and become a good friend of Yilan’s people!

Designer: Chung-Yi,Chen

Rocking Rice

[ Excellent Work ]

Yilan is the land of rice. Being a chair whichcould represent Yilan, the design concept of Rocking Rice is started from “eating”. We use the package of rice (the vacuum rice brick) tostrengthen the chair’s structure. We assign a structural function to the rice brick whichhas changed the brand value of Yilan Chair into the cost of farmers’ rice. For YIlan Chair’s customers, the chair is not only a rocking chair for children, but also gives you a contract of one year or six months order of organic rice. It supports the development of small scale agriculture in Yilan.